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Grimm's law

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Grimm's law

In linguistics, the rule (formulated 1822 by Jakob Grimm) by which certain prehistoric sound changes have occurred in the consonants of Indo-European languages: for example Latin p became English and German f sound, as in pater – father, Vater.

Such correspondences show the kinship between various native English words and those borrowed from the classical or Romance languages.
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To provide readers with an idea of what traditional comparative philology does - and, therefore, with an idea of what Mozeson would really have to do next if he wished to add substance to his claim that English derives from Hebrew - I shall summarize briefly Grimm's Law and Verner's Law, two of the most important philological laws explaining the history and development of English in the context of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.
The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals the Source of English by Besserman, Lawrence / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
To provide readers with an idea of what traditional comparative philology does - and, therefore, with an idea of what Mozeson would really have to do next if he wished to add substance to his claim that English derives from Hebrew - I shall summarize briefly Grimm's Law and Verner's Law, two of the most important philological laws explaining the history and development of English in the context of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.
The Hebrew roots of the English language by Besserman, Lawrence / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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